Exhibitions 2025

The Saturday Man

THE SATURDAY MAN

Sometime in the 1990’s it became a cliché to say that football was ‘the new rock ‘n’ roll’. Back in 1966 however, the only new rock ‘n’ roll was rock ‘n’ roll. That’s how Geoff Hurst's World Cup hat-trick slipped by photographer ‘The Saturday Man‘ because while some people were on the pitch, he was hanging out with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley & the Duchess. Back then the rules of life were simple: you liked football, or you liked music. And no one with any sense or ambition would have picked football. Football - like baths and sex happened once a week, twice if you were lucky, or had coins for the meter But gradually that all changes. Yes it’s the money, it always is. Football turns vibrant and bombastic . The LCD displays blink out messages of love. The pitches dry up, turn glossy green as country club fairways, the players, tanned like film stars, now look younger, the crowds older (because they are), the bigger stadiums more like shopping malls, the toilets flush, the food is almost edible.


Peter Robinson MA ( RCA ) 
Born February 1944 in England and educated at Leicester College of Art and The Royal College of Art.
During a long career as a documentary photographer , he also shot some sports events.
These include 13 World Cups and 10 Olympic Games, not to mention the hundreds of football matches in England and Europe from the late 60s to the 80s 
His football images from 102 countries, have been featured in more than 350 books, thousands of magazines,and liberally sampled by football social media.
In April 2022 an article in The Athletic / New York Times sports journalism website , declared he was “arguably the world’s greatest living soccer photographer “